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Article: Spencer Tunick.
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- Art Monthly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Spencer Tunick Baltic Gateshead January 21 to March 26
Spencer Tunick's installations predictably make for great press and plenty of column inches. His process--that of inviting hundreds or even thousands of people to simultaneously pose naked in the great cities of the world--is unique, titillating, spectacular and weird. For participants, as I was for the Newcastle-Gateshead work, it is all the above and a great leveller, liberating and unusual, if rather chilly.
You could say that Tunick is onto a good thing, a guaranteed money-spinner and a lifetime of exotic travel. Furthermore, he ticks a lot of boxes for publicly funded galleries. He has an ...